Casting for Leadership Talent: The Voices of Six Successful Women in the Banking Industry This primary purpose of this study was to examine the roles of women in the American banking industry who have achieved the title of Senior Vice President or above and to determine why these women, in particular have attained senior leadership positions. This study explores the facilitating and inhibiting factors for women in the banking industry, in both an individual and institutional context, to determine whether there are goals in place that focus on the retention and development of the mostAuthor(s): Galbraith, Diane D.

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The Relationship Between the Five-Factor Model of Personality and Leadership Preferences for Initiat This study seeks to further understand the influence of personality on preferred leadership style by investigating the relationship between the Ohio State Model of Leadership and the 5-factor model of personality. Archival data, consisting of scores on the NEO PI-R and Leadership Opinion Questionnaire, and demographic information (age, gender, education level, prior managerial experience) for 296 job applicants was analyzed. Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism were hypothesized to pAuthor(s): Francoeur, Keith Alan

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University Faculty's Response to Student Loss by Death or Romantic Break-up Coping with a significant loss is an issue that many college students will
encounter while in an environment not conducive to the mourning process. As an
institution that plays a large role in students academic and personal growth, universities
need to be made aware of the unique challenges bereaved students face. This study was
designed to assess university faculty response to and awareness of loss in college
students. Types of loss assessed were the death of a family member, the death of a
boyAuthor(s): Dietz, Sarah E.

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Towards a Grammar of Leadership Contemporary (empirical) leadership study (CLS) is beset with the inability to define its object efficiently. Consequently, CLS has generated hundreds of so-called leadership “definitions” with no end in sight, leaving the field in disarray. This situation of definitional indefiniteness is due to a lack of a fundamental (philosophical, non-empirical) theory of leadership that articulates a universal leadership reality that grounds and provides referential stability for empirical study. This Author(s): Clark, Daniel H.

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Film in Composition: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through the Study of Film in First-Year Com Film in composition: Developing critical thinking skills through the study of
film in first-year composition presents an investigation of the application of film study in
college writing instruction. The first two chapters argue for the inclusion of film in the
teaching of writing; explore the cultural, social, and political relevance of film for the
field of composition; and present a review of the theoretical and pedagogical applications
of film study in secondary English and first-year writinAuthor(s): Amaya-Anderson, Beatriz

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Composition and Identity: A Theoretical Approach to First-Year Composition Identity has, for some time, been a feature of discussions of social and political issues under the cover of Cultural Studies. In Composition, however, identity has not often been discussed in its psychological or individualistic terms, even as studies have shown that identity is the major influence on what and how people write (Newkirk, 1997; Bracher, 1999; Alcorn, 2002; Tobin, 2004; Tingle, 2004). Resistance to psychological identity in composition is likely due to a lack of understanding of iAuthor(s): Swartz, Stephen M.

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An Observational Study Of Pre-Service Teachers’ Classroom Management Strategies Employee attrition is disproportionately higher in the field of education, especially among novice teachers (Liu & Meyer, 2005). A recent survey of American teachers, conducted by MetLife (2005), found that 20% reported, “maintaining order and discipline in the classroom is the greatest challenge” (p. 5). The focus of this study was the problem of increased teacher attrition rates due to classroom management issues.
The participants in the study attended six classroom management workshops tAuthor(s): Rockey, Rebecca D.

The Collaboration of Teacher/Artist Teams: A Qualitative Analysis of Selected Interpersonal Compone Recent demands for academic accountability, as evidenced through standardized test scores, have left many school arts programs understaffed and vulnerable to budgetary constraints, particularly arts programs within poor urban and rural regions. For decades arts organizations have offered artist-in-residence programs as a way to supplement existing arts education programs. Currently, every state in the nation provides funding for outreach programs designed to bring “teaching artists” (TA) iAuthor(s): Purnell, Paula G.

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"A New Lease on Life": A Narrative Case Study of an Older Adult, Participant Design Writing Group Within the field of composition, older adults are an understudied population. This qualitative project examined a group of older adults from subsidized senior highrise apartments on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Rather than impose a design and a purpose upon the participants, as is usually done in senior writing group studies, I examined a Participant Design writing group, which had each participant contribute to how the group as conducted and decide the kinds of comments s/he received. I, asAuthor(s): Nora, Krystia

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An adaptive feedback approach
for e-learning systems The adaptive e-learning systems are a hot topic of
educational research. The approach presented is a
knowledge-based. There are several types of adaptation of an
e-learning system to the learner: content adaptation, interface
personalization, etc. This paper dials with a model for adaptation
of the learner assessment and the content of one learning system.
The model is based on Computer Adaptive Test Theory (CAT)
and organization of the learning domains. The learning objects
(LO) and the test itAuthor(s): Kovatcheva Eugenia,Nikolov Roumen

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Transformational Leadership: Is It a Factor for Improving Student Achievement in High Poverty Secon This mixed-method study addressed the following problem: What type of leadership is most appropriate to guide schools through the process of continuous rapid change required by the No Child Left Behind legislation and the twenty-first century while still performing well? It investigated a possible relationship between improved student achievement on state assessments, improved four-year graduation rate for high schools, improved attendance for schools without graduating classes, and the LeitAuthor(s): Gulbin, Kathleen M.

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The United States Postal Service: A Case Study of Large Scale Government Transformation The challenge of replacing the baby-boomer generation of employees is beginning in government agencies as they face a “tsunami” of retirements. This generation forms the core of middle managers or supervisors who are essential to providing the continuity in government organizations that serve the needs of citizens on a daily basis, or most critically in times of crisis.
This same generation of government employees worked through decades of change in public administration. The 1980s privatAuthor(s): Ferguson, Dale L.

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Reducing the Premature Termination of Children from Psychotherapy through Research Based Program Eva This study attempts to understand premature termination from psychotherapy by children. It attempts to supply recommendations for two different mental health settings to reduce premature termination from their programs. The programs were the Center for Applied Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (CAP) and the Community Guidance Center (CGC), both located in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Premature termination is a serious problem in the delivery of services across populations. EstimatedAuthor(s): Dunn, Candice J.

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Structural Equation Modeling Assessment of Key Causal Factors in Computer Crime Victimization This dissertation empirically assesses a computer-crime victimization model by applying Routine activities theory. Routine activities theory is arguably, as presented in detail in the main body of this study, merely an expansion of Hindelang, Gottfredson, and Garofalo’s lifestyle exposure theory. The components of routine activities theory were tested via structural equation modeling to assess the existence of any statistical significance between individual online lifestyles, the levels of comAuthor(s): Choi, Kyung-Shick

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The Academic Environment of One Junior High School In Northeastern Pennsylvania as Perceived by the This ethnographic study describes the academic culture and climate, as it relates to the music program, of a non arts-integrated junior high school as perceived by members of the English, mathematics, music faculty and selected administrators. The study, conducted using a three interview protocol, were guided by four questions: 1) What is the relationship between one’s life experience and their belief systems?; 2) What is the perceived value and influence of a teacher education and music proAuthor(s): Buzzelli-Clarke, Elizabeth

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Improved Critical Thinking Skills as a Result of Direct Instruction and Their Relationship to Academ This experimental study examined the effect of direct instruction in critical thinking on the critical thinking ability and academic achievement of Freshman students being tutored in repeat courses at a rural southeastern Pennsylvania university. This study used the Thinker's Guides, based on Richard Paul's model of critical thinking, and the Rationale Argument Mapping Program, based on the research of Tim van Gelder. Subjects' abstract reasoning and problem solving skills were measured by the CAuthor(s): Bessick, Sherlynn C.

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Emerging Health Trends and Behavior Risk Factors for Chronic Disease Risk in Rural and Urban Pennsyl The purpose of this study was to gain a greater understanding of the health access and utilization, health risk and preventive behaviors, chronic diseases, and selected public health issues for rural and urban residents of Pennsylvania. Only by the examination of these factors of health can policy makers and health providers make connections and understand the recommendations of implementing health education to prevent the onset of chronic diseases. It is not enough to recognize the data alone bAuthor(s): Anderson, Kristine Marie Zaragoza

A View from Eternity: The Spiritual Journey of Emily Dickinson A gap in the extant criticism of Emily Dickinson requires further discussion of the significance of her poetry. This study utilizes a theory of New Historicism to analyze Emily Dickinson‘s biography and body of work; it draws upon Dickinson‘s own poems and letters as well as critical, historical, social, political, and scientific sources. The study shows that the poet deliberately structured her lifestyle in a triangular configuration: she resided in her father‘s house; she developed herAuthor(s): McChesney, Sandra